This book provides all the information a student od Britain and British culture needs to know. What s it like living ib Britain today? Find out about the country and its people in this new edition of Britain. All the information is completely up-to-date and illustrated with new colour photographs.

A sentry in London keeps a lookout for German bombers as attacks begin on Britain s capital during the Battle of Britain, September 1940.

1066 is not the best remembered date in British history for nothing. In the space of nine hours whilst the Battle of Hastings raged, everything changed. Anglo-Saxon England became Norman and, for the next 300 years, its fate was decided by dynasties of French rulers.

There is no saga more powerful than that of the warring dynasty - domineering father, beautiful, scheming mother and squabbling, murderous sons and daughters, (particularly the nieces). In the years that followed the Norman Conquest, this was the drama played out on the stage of British history.

Nations is the epic account of how the nations of Britain emerged from under the hammer of England s Longshanks King Edward I, with a sense of who and what they were, which endures to this day.

Documentary in which writer and journalist Christopher de Bellaigue explores the fraught but often surprisingly intimate history of Britain s relations with Iran, and asks why Iranians think that if something goes wrong in Iran then Britain must have something to do with it.De Bellaigue has lived in Tehran, speaks fluent Persian and knows well the phenomenon of Uncle Napoleonism , the notion that the cunning British are out to get you that has been a common attitude in Iranian society for 100 years.

Cultural historian David Heathcote uses old travel guide books to explore modern-day Britain.The Victorian Way: David Heathcote uses a 1887 Baedeker Guide to explore modern-day Britain, discovering hidden treasures popular with Victorian tourists but rarely visited today. He discovers the most fashionable of Welsh watering places before taking a trip to the salt mines and visiting Manchester, recommended by Baedeker as a hotbed of music, politics and radical thinking. The journey ends in York where modern day tourists follow in the footsteps of their Victorian counterparts.